True that! This thread inspired me to toss a couple in the car when I went to run my traps today. That ammo isn't getting any younger and neither are we. As you may have noticed by the price tag on one box I haven't bought ammo in awhile. I have less than a thousand rounds of 22WMR but at this rate I'll never need to buy more.

Mike

TXGunNut said

Bert H. said

TXGunNut said
I have a partial box of ancient Super-X (silver paper box) but my NAA revolver is sighted in for it so I wanted to save it.😉
 
Mike
  

Mike,
I have 2,900 rounds of the Super-X (silver paper box)... I am quite sure that I can resupply you at Cody.  Shoot up that old partial box!
Bert
  

That would last me quite awhile, Bert. That partial box is at least 20 and possibly 30 years old and I've only managed to fire 31 rounds out of it. Those little hideout revolvers are slow to shoot and even slower to reload. Kinda easy on the ammo. Seems your rifle likes it better than anything else you've tried in it, might be worth keeping around.
 
Mike
  

I will never shoot that many rounds through it.  In addition to the Super-X ammo, I have another 700 rounds of CCI, Federal,  Hornady, and Remington 22 Magnum ammo.  I have two pistols that I can shoot it in (PMR-30 and an original Ruger Single Six convertible).  I need to start shooting more of my rim fires...

Bert

Bert H. said

TXGunNut said
I have a partial box of ancient Super-X (silver paper box) but my NAA revolver is sighted in for it so I wanted to save it.😉
 
Mike
  

Mike,
I have 2,900 rounds of the Super-X (silver paper box)... I am quite sure that I can resupply you at Cody.  Shoot up that old partial box!
Bert
  

That would last me quite awhile, Bert. That partial box is at least 20 and possibly 30 years old and I've only managed to fire 31 rounds out of it. Those little hideout revolvers are slow to shoot and even slower to reload. Kinda easy on the ammo. Seems your rifle likes it better than anything else you've tried in it, might be worth keeping around.

Mike

Zebulon said
Mike,  which R-word model is it?  
  

It's an old 597 Magnum. One of the first 17HMR's. They had problems with it but it shot very well for me and a few guys I know. Too bad it's a 22WMR now, well with Minute of Coyote from here to my back fence, tho.

Mike

TXGunNut said
I have a partial box of ancient Super-X (silver paper box) but my NAA revolver is sighted in for it so I wanted to save it.😉
 
Mike
  

Mike,

I have 2,900 rounds of the Super-X (silver paper box)... I am quite sure that I can resupply you at Cody.  Shoot up that old partial box!

Bert

Mike

if it”s any consolation the 61M was never intended to be a target rifle and the one you beat Ben out of is certainly a lot easier in the eyes than my polymer and phosphate coyote club. Photos of the R-word are NOT forthcoming! Attached 50 yard target is not bragging material but it certainly shows promise.

Mike

Henry Mero said
Personally I could never figure why any one would want a .22 magnum especially with a .22 hornet or the .22 Win. c.f. available. Any game doable with a .22 mag. was pretty much doable with a .22 l.r. Now saying that I knew fellas that went deer hunting with a .22, because it was the only gun they had. Then on the other end I knew fellas that used a .303 Enfield on jack rabbits,. I had a .22 hornet many years ago that shot many "killer" ground hogs and put many cottontails in the pot, it would still be about My favorite cartridge if I was still hunting, I would just need to find one in a lever action with a "red dot" sight on it so I could hit something. 
  

For carrying & hunting, the Winchester Model 43 is my favorite 22 Hornet rifle.  I have mine scoped with a Leupold VX-II 2x7, and with factory Remington 45-gr HP ammo, it shoots sub MOA (dime sized) groups @ 100-yds

Bert

I do wish one of the foreign powder makers would pick up and replicate SR4759. Maybe the potential.demand for it is too small and I can't see that because I find it so useful. 

I have to give Bert credit for encouraging me to buy a good supply of Lil Gun when Midway got some in. It is a powder I didn't see as useful in the tiny quantities the Hornet case can use. But it is excellent for the caliber. 

[In other news,my High Wall 38-55 should be in in next few days and the Redding dies came yesterday]

For those that are curious, the current cost to reload for the Hornet is 38-cents per round (bullet, primer, & powder) as opposed to $70+ per box of 50 for Remington/Winchester/Hornady factory new ammo.

250 Hornady V-Max 40 grain bullets = $50.14 (50.14/250 = $.20 per bullet)

CCI 400 primers = $86.99 per 1,000 ($.087 per piece)

Hodgdon Lil'Gun powder = $46 per 1 lb, (7,000 grains/13.5 grains = 518 loads per pound) or $.089 per ctg.

Bert

Among all the departed, however, an Anschutz Model 1722 was the standout. It, too, was built on the Match 54 action and had a superb trigger. It was easily the most accurate and accounted for many Rio Grande gobblers and (in Brown County, where the population of G. m. Intermedia was out of control and either sex was legal in the Fall) large hens. 

The only problem with the Anschutz was its rear locking action that allowed Hornet cases to stretch and would soon result in case separations if they were reloaded more than once or twice. Had I kept the rifle I would have had it rechambered to K-Hornet to give it a decent shoulder. The #1 has no such deficiency. 

My point: The Hornet, in the hands of a handloader, makes the Magnum Rimfire expensive surplus. 

As a matter of interest:

Ruger has, for the time being, ended production of the #1 and #77 -- the customers who wanted one of each, like me, have got them. The last years of production of the #1 were sold exclusively to Cabela/Bass Pro, which had complete control of each year's single caliber and configuration. Cabela knew how to market the #1 better than Sturm Ruger and was willing to tag them at $2K retail in order to upgrade the wood and the trimmings. Mine has Walnut I spotted 50 yards away from the display rack and turned down guns in unopened boxes in order to buy it for the Walnut.  Case colored receiver and lever, stiff contour 24" barrel but with Alex Henry forearm and ramped and quarter ribbed iron sights. Copious checkering and a red pad. It's a show dog that can hunt. And the 77 is a 6.5 SE African style that loses the boxy look of the standard gun. Fuzz your eyes and its a Holland magazine gun. 

 I'm going to resist the unworthy temptation to unload these at an immoral price to Simple Simon who thinks they're rare....